Error Quotes

To kill an error is as good a service as, and sometimes even better than, the establishing of a new truth or fact.

An error doesn't become a mistake until you refuse to correct it.

Drug misuse is not a disease, it is a decision, like the decision to step out in front of a moving car. You would call that not a disease but an error of judgment.

Well, first of all, let me say that I might have made a tactical error in not going to a physician for 20 years. It was one of those phobias that really didn't pay off.

It took one human error to take my leg and one human error to take my mother's.

There is no sinfulness in the will and affections without some error in the understanding. All lusts which a natural man lives in, are lusts of ignorance.

No consensus of men can make an error erroneous. We can only find or commit an error, not create it. When we commit an error, we say what was an error already.

Any man can make mistakes, but only an idiot persists in his error.

One of the most dangerous forms of human error is forgetting what one is trying to achieve.

If, during the course of the game, it be discovered that any error or illegality has been committed in the moves of the pieces, the moves must be retraced, and the necessary correction made, without penalty.

Religion is not a popular error; it is a great instinctive truth, sensed by the people, expressed by the people.

No man's error becomes his own Law; nor obliges him to persist in it.

It is one thing to show a man that he is in an error, and another to put him in possession of the truth.

One wanders to the left, another to the right. Both are equally in error, but, are seduced by different delusions.

You don't learn from a situation where you do something well. You enjoy it and you give yourself credit, but you don't really learn from that. You learn from trial and error, trial and error, all the time.

One of the surest evidences of friendship that one individual can display to another is telling him gently of a fault. If any other can excel it, it is listening to such a disclosure with gratitude, and amending the error.

Truth is immortal; error is mortal.

We have seen that no religion stands on the basis of things known; none bounds its horizon within the field of human observation; and, therefore, as it can never present us with indisputable facts, so must it ever be at once a source of error and contention.

God is another name for human intelligence raised above all error and imperfection, and extended to all possible truth.

To me, error analysis is the sweet spot for improvement.

I was critical of the Israeli government, however, for not being prepared for the move. One does not uproot thousands of people without planning in advance what will be done with them. This was a political and human error in which the government functioned poorly.

It is a general popular error to suppose the loudest complainers for the public to be the most anxious for its welfare.

The biggest thrill a ballplayer can have is when your son takes after you. That happened when my Bobby was in his championship Little League game. He really showed me something. Struck out three times. Made an error that lost the game. Parents were throwing things at our car and swearing at us as we drove off. Gosh, I was proud.

The humblest citizen of all the land, when clad in the armor of a righteous cause, is stronger than all the hosts of error.

It is in his knowledge that man has found his greatness and his happiness, the high superiority which he holds over the other animals who inhabit the earth with him, and consequently no ignorance is probably without loss to him, no error without evil.

Art has a double face, of expression and illusion, just like science has a double face: the reality of error and the phantom of truth.

If you see a blatant error or misconception about yourself, you really want to set it straight.

The chief qualification of a mass leader has become unending infallibility; he can never admit an error.

People are so busy dreaming the American Dream, fantasizing about what they could be or have a right to be, that they're all asleep at the switch. Consequently we are living in the Age of Human Error.

The world is indebted for all triumphs which have been gained by reason and humanity over error and oppression.